Talks about the Steps of the Ladder, Part 291

What Should We Do When a Desire to Escape the Problems of This World Takes Over?

The goal of someone who engages in Kabbalah is not to find refuge in spirituality out of fear of the problems brought upon us in this world. This is a mistaken approach. Whoever holds it delays their development. Some people stop working, while others neglect various areas of life and cease functioning in them. They think, why do I need a wife and children? It would be better to get divorced and only study, to live like an angel. Many resign themselves to this weakness, which actually stems from a lack of animate “fuel,” when we feel that it is not worthwhile to approach the pleasures of this world, that they offer nothing and that it is not worth making an effort.

However, we need to undergo such states literally by force and connect them with the fact that the Creator gives them to us, that He is the one who sends them. There is no choice but to go through these difficult states, the feeling of exhaustion and meaninglessness, with the thought that it comes from Him.

All the states, not only in the family or at work, but also the national and global states that we are going through now, are truly a revelation of Godliness, a revelation of Providence, although it is the beginning of the revelation of the “posterior” (Achoraim), it is nevertheless an actual revelation. We see that no one has a solution to the problems we are being brought to on a global scale. Especially us, but also the entire world. The whole world is in a state of complete lack of direction, a state unlike anything in the memory of human history. Everyone is aware of this, including great scientists who study humanity’s development and human history. No one has an answer.

There is no answer in particular or in general. Especially we, among all of humanity, feel that there is no solution. Soon we will all know that humanity’s fate hangs by a very thin thread, with a gaping abyss beneath it.

If we succeed to connect all such phenomena to the goal and work accordingly, then we will succeed. That is, we will proceed by the good path toward the end of correction. If we do not connect them and do not work toward the goal, we will have difficult lives. Everything depends on the way in which we use the surrounding light. The more we internalize the surrounding light within us as inner light, our inner light will be surrounding light for the nations, they will feel how surrounding light comes to them from us and will depend on and be connected to us. They will want this to happen from the positive and not out of the negative.

Today, the nations circle around us like mad dogs intent on doing harm. Why? It is because subconsciously they know that we possess something meant for them, and they feel that we are not giving it to them. How would you relate to those who hold your life in their hands and do not let you live? This is what happens. The nations will feel surrounding light only on condition that we have inner light. This is what is meant by the expression “a light unto the nations.” The nations are on a lower degree, and this is the order of the degrees. When they begin to receive inner light from the surrounding light, we will begin to receive the light of Haya and Yechida. Afterward, unification will take place. Everyone will have the same light, meaning the general end of correction.

Therefore, we must understand this and accept all these states that are intended for the goal and do not come upon us randomly from one enemy ruler or another.

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